Thursday, 30 May 2013

Hey guys! I've made a bunch of Sytrus plugins on FL Studio. They should work on FL Studio versions 9 and up. Feel free to use them in your songs and be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel or tell a friend about it.

I've been using this laptop since September of last year and it's about time I dropped a review on it. I bought the MSI GE70 as I needed an all round good system to use while abroad and it fit the bill nicely. A nifty laptop good for making music, playing games and just about everything else you could need it for! It even surpassed my PC making it possible to creating even longer mixes with the 8gb of ram.

Pros:
- Turbo button / function allows the laptop to increase and decrease power usage via the CPU clock speed.
- The screen is nicely sized which makes it great for watching movies.
- Runs games like BF3, Age of Chivalry, CS GO, Dota 2, Sleeping Dogs and pretty much most modern games with no problem on medium settings, 1920x1080 with AA off.
- The wireless is pretty strong in this one. Reached my neighbour's internet no problem ;)
- Works great with FL Studio and Sony Vegas Pro.
- Camera is pretty good for Skype calls.
- It's portable.

Cons:
- Struggled with Natural Selection 2 especially when it came out back in winter last year. The game was highly unoptimized and for a while I had to play at 800x600 resolution.
- Without the fan running at max speed, it tends to get hot while playing most games.
- If you don't have headphones on when the fan runs at max speed, you're gonna have a bad time.
- The inbuilt microphone causes static/problems when talking to some people on Skype and isn't the best. It's too close to the fan which causes problems when gaming and using voice comm.

All in all, it's a great laptop if you're going to be using it for heavy duty stuff. If you're not really into your games, then it would be wiser to go for something cheaper or get yourself a PC. I'd give this laptop a 9/10 as it has exceeded my expectations but unfortunately the trouble with the microphone makes it a bit of a nuisance when Skyping people.

Got an email the other day with a nice 2GB sample pack for free. I don't know much about Prime Loops but edmStudio are the next big thing coming up with their edmSpotlight channel supplying and promoting tracks through all the big YouTube names.

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Uploaded an interesting track today by Enoc and xKore. Haven't heard much of Enoc's stuff but this particular track blew me away. The piece doesn't really fall into any category and to be honest, it's awesome. xKore never fails to impress and whenever he collabs, he always seems to step up his game. The guy puts in a lot of effort into his tracks and it shows. Great all round job from both of these fellas.

Without further ado, here's the latest track from the channel.

Second order of news, I'm slowly getting some tracks together to hopefully pull off a massive Dubstep mix in time for late June / early July. Usually I rush and get as many tracks as I can in a short time but some variation in strategy could help make the mixes even better!

As for my personal work, haven't managed to create anything worth showing in a while. I've been working on a little side project to help out upcoming musicians get the tools they need to get that authentic Dubstep sound and I'm excited (and a bit anxious) to get this done and see what people think.